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Cannot install all of my custom content? Help!

Hello once again, folks!

I hope your holiday is going well. Mine isn't, sadly. To this day, I still play The Sims 3. I've recently acquired a new PC...Hurray! But unfortunately, only less than half of my custom content was able to be installed in the game. When I try to install everything else, the launcher throws an error message for each item. I'll provide a screenshot or two, which will show a few of these messages, as I can't remember what each one says...

https://deviantart.com/spiralstorm248/art/Sims-3-Installation-Failed-901413185 and https://deviantart.com/spiralstorm248/art/Sims-3-Installation-Failed-II-901413181

The steps I've tried included restarting the game launcher and unchecking the boxes for several of the content patches. I've even tried redoing the installation a few times over. And it never seems to work. Please tell me, anyone! What am I doing wrong?

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  • igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
    edited December 2021
    Custom Content is that which is created by yourself or other players. The errors in your screenshots are related to TS3 Store content.

    But anyway, the error shown can often mitigated by having the TS3 Store Patches in place. They are no longer automatically offered up by the Launcher for 1.67 installs as they once were (this is not an issue for 1.69/Origin installs). Have you copied the Store (Content) Patches over from your prior install?

    If this is a retail disc install (not Steam), it might help to run the 1.67 SuperPatcher even if you had already run it recently.
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  • cianeciane Posts: 16,996 Member
    A shared file of the file that was once on the site for the latest store patch:

    http://simfileshare.net/download/462061/

    A steam user shared their store patch here:
    Delete the obvious spaces.
    https:// //mega. nz/#!z9BxzARD!rzzIiBZyOEhnXoYacZUzBg0Ce1FvP68Fzk995fQp4n0
  • HenrySpiralHenrySpiral Posts: 124 Member
    edited December 2021
    ciane wrote: »
    A shared file of the file that was once on the site for the latest store patch:

    http://simfileshare.net/download/462061/

    A steam user shared their store patch here:
    Delete the obvious spaces.
    https:// //mega. nz/#!z9BxzARD!rzzIiBZyOEhnXoYacZUzBg0Ce1FvP68Fzk995fQp4n0

    Hello! I was not aware I had to copy the Store (Content) Patches over from my prior install. And yesh, I am a steam user. But ciane, the 2nd site you sent me says quote: "The file you are trying to download is no longer available."

    Does this mean I'm out of luck and thus, cannot play The Sims 3, unless I find the relevant Store Patches on my older PC, and re-install them? Where do I find them? And more importantly, how do I re-install them? Let me know soon...Thanks!
  • igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
    edited December 2021
    Try using the file on the first link that @ciane provides. None of us have ever really been sure if a Steam-specific version of the store content patch was really necessary.

    The package file goes into a folder called ContentPatch in your TS3 user game folder in Documents. If you don't have a ContentPatch folder already, you can always create one. The path should look something like

    C:\(or This PC, username, etc)\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 (this is your game folder)\ContentPatch\(contents)
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  • HenrySpiralHenrySpiral Posts: 124 Member
    edited December 2021
    Hello!!

    S'mee again. As of today, I am still unable to install most of my custom content. Here are the steps I've tried...

    I: Downloading and installing ciane's first link onto the appropriate game folder. -No effect.
    II: Uninstalling, then deleting ALL of my game files. An interesting thing to note is how they keep self-installing onto my OneDrive C:\ folder.
    III: Only copy/pasting files and folders which my main game folder needs into it. -No effect!

    I even tried validating the files on Steam! 4 files were noted as failed to validate and quote: "would be reacquired". And even after having done all this, it still throws this error at me:

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    I am honestly reaching the end of my rope here. All I wanna do is play this game as I had it on my older PC. I just don't know what to do next.
  • igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
    It's probably time to reach out to the helpful players and staff at EA's Answers.HQ. They may be able to help you through this better than we can here.
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  • ignominiusrexignominiusrex Posts: 2,680 Member
    I was about to ask if anyone knows how to buy simpoints and/or buy store content, for Steam Sims3, without just being kicked to Origin, which then just doesn't finish loading. There was supposed to be a way to engage with the sims3 store for the Steam account without having to link the steam account to origin but I have no idea how. Reading this thread, is it now just impossible for steam users of sims3, to buy and use Store content in their game? that seems really weird.
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  • igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
    edited February 2022
    I was about to ask if anyone knows how to buy simpoints and/or buy store content, for Steam Sims3, without just being kicked to Origin, which then just doesn't finish loading. There was supposed to be a way to engage with the sims3 store for the Steam account without having to link the steam account to origin but I have no idea how. Reading this thread, is it now just impossible for steam users of sims3, to buy and use Store content in their game? that seems really weird.

    That is not quite correct, or at least it shouldn't be. I am a Steam TS3 player and never have any trouble with my store content. To purchase point bundles, and it would be the same for the couple of store worlds that must be purchased by cash rather than points, I use the Origin.com website through a web browser, not the Origin client program. The accounts to have to mesh though, in order for the content to be usable and then the points (or store worlds) show up in the TS3 store a short while after purchase.
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